Divān

Hafez

Perseus:bib:oclc, 559481156. The Dīvān .Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Ṣūfīism, and with a life of the author, by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.

  1. We said : " Thy stature is the (lofty) box-tree ; much shame it bringeth to fruit : " ### (To the box-tree), this similarity why made we ; and this calumny why (is it that) we uttered ? ***